Sunflower Faith

Ever have a monday where you hit the ground running, feeling like an octopus, yet your mind was still in bed and in denial? Boy, was I having one of those days.

The hosting server was down, I’ve spent most of this morning getting things ready at the last minute due to being away from the computer and not being able to take care of normal chores for the next few days and I couldn’t help but feel like Garfield.

It's Monday

Thank You Heavenly Father, You are there, because it’s so easy to feel like too many chores, not enough time.

I thank God for a great doctor, nothing major, just some things that she wanted to check up on, but it was a reminder how important that we make and make time in our lives and take care of ourselves if we want to be the encourager and servant of our Heavenly Father, that He calls us to be.

Deuteronomy 31:8 “And the LORD, He is the one who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”

Even though I am taking some time off the next few days, I will have some posts set up to come up here, but I will be taking a short break this week from participating in memes or actively posting myself.

I’m always feeling like I need to be on the go or doing something, but God is an awesome God that He reminds us that we’re of no use to service for Him or for anyone if we forget to take the time out ourselves and rest.

“For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.”–Isaiah 30:15

I should be back later this week, but in the meantime, enjoy some posts that I will be sharing with you, either written by me in the past, shared with me by others or never published and praying that all finds you well, dear Gentle Reader and talk with you very soon.

So just for a little fun on the side, I thought I would take this 1930′s Marital Scale to see how I rate, and after my husband saw the results and stop laughing, figure, hey, I’ll share the results here.
I’m wondering how good an idea that really is to do that.

81 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test!

So….waiting for the mean comments to start piling up. LOL!

Remember, it’s just a non-scientific based test, it’s a non-scientific based test. Take off 80 points and I bet that is my REAL score.

I was just having a general thought on things. We want to try and see the best in all things and in all people. Who doesn’t?

We want to believe that no matter what people are good and don’t mean harm, but I can’t help but wonder in the process, can we get too hopeful that instead of seeing sin for sin, or life for life, we end up becoming too blind to the reality of what is before us.

Rather than face facts, we make excuses to keep our own selves in the dark about the truth of human nature and in the process not only forgot about God’s guidance, but forget why He died on the Cross?

In the God’s Words Translation, Galatians 6:1 is translated as saying:

“Brothers and sisters, if a person gets trapped by wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should help that person turn away from doing wrong. Do it in a gentle way. At the same time watch yourself so that you also are not tempted.”

Basically Galatians 6:1 is saying to take care that we don’t try to delude ourselves or others when a sin has been committed.  There is a way to be loving about it, but ignoring it, denying what it really is, and not even calling it, is just as bad.

Yes we are called to forgive as Jesus forgives us, but we also must not forget what Jesus had forgiven us and asked us to repent of….that’s right. Sin.

How can we truthfully say why He died on the cross and what He died of and stand testament to Jesus Christ if we forget the reason why He died…for our sins. The sins we all have and will commit. The sins that HE died for so we could have a promise of hope.

It was convicting as I read this quote from, the Blind Eye of Love-Seeing the Evil in Others,”

“Jesus died for the forgiveness of sins. If you do not see sin in others, then neither do you see their need of the blood of Jesus. You cannot have it both ways.

When you point your finger at people’s need of the cross, what are you pointing your finger at? You are not pointing at the good in them, for Jesus did not die to save them from that, but he died rather that they might have remission of their sins (Mtt 26:28) . So when you preach the gospel to people, you are pointing at their sins. And that is the loving thing to do.

You may object that no, it is the Holy Spirit who is convicting them of sin, you are just the instrument, and make no judgment yourself. But as God’s instrument you must concur with what God is doing through you. And God is not seeing only the good in people –he is seeing the evil in people and urging them to see it.What virtue is there in your being blind to it?”

Do we sometimes try to love and look for the good so much that rather than  face the fact that instead of helping, we maybe hurting we end up bearing bad testimony ourselves? Yes it’s hard to accept the truth of a situation but it is a two way street.

It would be great if we lived in a perfect world, but we don’t. There is really only one perfect world and that is God’s world and till Jesus Christ returns, the sad reality is that we live in a broken, sin filled world. As much as there is hope, there is hopelessness, as much as there is life, there is death.

And as much as there is lies, there is only one, and one only way to truth and that is through Jesus Christ.

Till then, the truth is that no man’s morality is truly good. Nor is it an excuse to think it’s okay to be sinful as well.

God doesn’t expect us to be perfect and know that we will make mistakes but He also wants us to allow Him to live in and through us and part of that is being open to His guiding word. When we truly believe in Him and His word, the reality is that we learn that we are always going to make mistakes but we can’t expect to much from each other because as mortal beings, as men, we are going to fail.

1 Thessalonian 2:4 Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

Here’s a convicting thought, ask yourself if you have knowingly overlook something that you knew was un-Christianlike or bad testament to our Heavenly Father  or just plain and simple a sin,and rather than approach it soundly and lovingly in a way that will bear testament to our Heavenly Father and His grace, we just swept it under the rug instead.

We all probably have at some point or once each day.

That’s why we have Our Heavenly Father. To help us find out how to deal and approach it.

Open your bible dear Gentle Reader. Come to our Heavenly Father with love and an open mind and allow Him to touch your heart, to convict your heart, to encourage your heart how to reach out to others or even oneself and to approach this in a way that bears testament to Jesus Christ and prayfully bring yourself or someone to Him.

We are to encourage one another and not just to each other as Christians, but even as Christians to non-Christians, so they too will know the reason for the joy and hope in our Heavenly Father.

Don’t let fear or blindness hide God’s glory. He offers hope and redemption. And in the end, the truth will set us free.

John 8:32: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.